GCSP covers the Paris terror attacks and their aftermath

Analysis of the new security paradigm facing Europe today

16 November 2015

In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks, GCSP experts address international news media on the new security challenges facing Europe.

From analytical forecasts to first-person reporting, our experts provide the latest insight into the ongoing crisis.


"It is precisely because the West must not put boots on the ground that reliance on locals' boots is so critical": Joseph Bahout devises solutions to defeat ISIS (Huffington Post)	"L’EI (...) dispose d’un vivier très important pour conduire des attaques à faible coût et à impact élevé": Jean-Marc Rickli pour Le Temps
"Non, Daech n’est pas en état de faiblesse. Il risque d’aller encore plus loin ces prochains temps": Mohammed-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou interview in Le Temps	"Global efforts to counter violent extremism (...) remain underfunded and lacking in hard evidence to show that deradicalisation programs are possible or effective": Carl Ungerer writing for The Australian
"Suspected architect of Paris siege is dead": Souad Mekhennet writing for The Washington Post	"Après la Russie et la France (l'Etat islamique) viseront d’autres cibles dans le monde": Mohammed-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou interview in Le Temps
"(ISIL) is the richest terrorist organization in history, with an estimated wealth of $2 billion." Dr Christina Schori Liang cited by Bloomberg	"The question comes down to are we willing to commit ground troops... into the fight on ISIS": Juliette Kayyem appearing on PBS News Hour
Prof. Mahmoud Mohamedou on RTS (Infrarouge)	« Après les attentats, la peur n’est pas bonne conseillère »: François Heisbourg in Le Monde
"Paris Is Mourning: One Journalist Reckons With Terror": Janine Di Giovanni for Vogue magazine	« Voilà 20 ans que la Belgique est un centre logistique des islamistes »: Jean-Paul Rouiller in Le Temps
"With attacks, ISIS now a global worry": Juliette Kayyem interviewed by the Harvard Gazette	"French officials think as many as 20 plotters may be behind Paris attacks": Souad Mekhennet for The Washington Post
"Oil wealth (...) provides energy needs for the estimated 10 million civilians living in [ISIS] controlled territory and it helps fuel the war machine": Christina Schori-Liang quoted in The Daily Mail	"Spies must change tactics to face new hybrid war": Alexandre Vautravers on Euronews
"Bombing ISIS Isn't Enough. 6 Steps To Achieving A Diplomatic Solution In Syria": James Stavridis for the Huffington Post	"This is a 9-11 level event. I think it will change the game": Adm. James Stavridis on BBC HARDtalk
"Almost everyone picked up is a French citizen and they're hiding in plain sight." Juliette Kayyem interviewed on CNN	"(L'Etat islamique) est beaucoup plus dans le combat, dans l'immédiat, dans la martialité des choses": Interview with Mohammed-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou on RTS
"What ISIS want more than anything is to provoke retaliation": CBC interview with Janine Di Giovanni	"(ISIS) have to keep the war economy going... They fight in the day and make deals at night." Christina Schori Liang cited in CNN Money